Graphite: Image Editing as a Syntax Tree (with Keavon Chambers & Dennis Kobert)

Graphite is a new image editor with an interesting architecture - it’s a classic UI-driven app, an image-manipulation language, and a library of programmable graphics primitives that any Rust coder could use, extend or add to. The result is something that you can use like Photoshop or Inkscape, or make use of in batch pipelines, a bit like ImageMagick. Joining me to discuss it are Keavon Chambers & Dennis Kobert, who are hammering away on building a project that’s potentially as demanding as Photoshop, but with a more ambitious architecture. How can they hope to compete? Perhaps in the short term by doing what regular image And is the future of image editing modular? – Graphite Homepage: https://graphite.rs/ Graphite Web Version: https://editor.graphite.rs/ Graphite on Github: https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite Signed Distance Fields: https://jasmcole.com/2019/10/03/signed-distance-fields/ Support Developer Voices on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DeveloperVoices Support Developer Voices on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices/join Kris on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/krisajenkins.bsky.social Kris on Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@krisajenkins Kris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/ – 0:00 Intro 2:59 Why Build A New Image Editor? 5:35 Managing the Scope of the Project 13:49 Can The User Build Their Own Image Tools? 17:49 Processing, Caching and One-Way Transforms 30:28 Graphene As A Graphics Description Language 45:02 Will Graphite Become A CLI Program Too? 54:48 Building the UI Side of the Editor 1:01:29 How Do You Hack On Graphite? 1:09:07 How Production-Ready Is Graphite? 1:16:29 Outro